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Norway’s Andreas Bakkerud has this morning confirmed that he will join Mattias Ekstrom in the newly-named EKS Audi Sport team for the 2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy. Read the rest of this entry »

For the second time this winter, he will be joined in the team by Norway’s Andreas Bakkerud

Former FIA World Rallycross Championship podium finisher Jean-Baptiste Dubourg extended his lead in the Andros Trophy ice racing series last weekend at Serre Chevalier and is hoping to close on his third Andros Trophy title this weekend in Lans-en-Vercors. Read the rest of this entry »

We caught up with Bakkerud to find out how he’s feeling ahead of his Andros debut

This weekend, Norway’s Andreas Bakkerud will switch from racing an FIA World Rallycross Championship Supercar to join DA Racing in the Andros Trophy ice racing series. He will drive a Renault Captur as team mate to Jean Baptiste-Dubourg.

World Rallycross Champions Petter Solberg and Johan Kristoffersson will join Norway’s Andreas Bakkerud and America’s Ken Block as the World RX stars competing at Gymkhana GRiD in Johannesburg, South Africa. Read the rest of this entry »

Bakkerud will swap his Ford Focus RS RX for an M-Sport Ford Fiesta R5 to entertain the crowds at Rallyday

Norway’s Andreas Bakkerud will travel to the UK this weekend, in between the Latvian and German rounds of the FIA World Rallycross Championship, to drive at Rallyday at Castle Combe on Saturday and in a round of the British Rallycross Championship on Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »

The FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy will return after a five-week summer hiatus as the teams travel out of Europe for the first time in 2017 for World RX of Canada this weekend (4-6 August). Read the rest of this entry »

His PSRX Volkswagen Sweden team mate Johan Kristoffersson was second and 2016 Holjes winner Andreas Bakkerud was third

The seventh round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship at Holjes in Sweden got underway today with Free Practice for the Supercar competitors, in which Norway’s Petter Solberg set the quickest time. Read the rest of this entry »

Norway’s Andreas Bakkerud set the fastest time in Q2 at the World RX of Norway, round six of the FIA World Rallycross Championship, but it’s Mattias Ekstrom who is TQ (Top Qualifier) on Saturday in Hell. Read the rest of this entry »

Andreas Bakkerud, Petter Solberg and Mattias Ekstrom have added their names of the list of winners

The entry list for the fifth round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship at Lydden Hill in Great Britain has been released by the FIA, where six additional competitors will join the 18 permanent teams and drivers to make up the 24-car field. Read the rest of this entry »

The Q1 draw for the first round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship has taken place in Barcelona

On the outside of the grid for the fifth and final race of Q1 is America’s Ken Block, who begins his second year in World RX this weekend. The Hoonigan Racing Division driver will start alongside his team mate, Norway’s Andreas Bakkerud, in their first race of the season. Read the rest of this entry »

Bakkerud’s new #BakkerudLIFE channel will include content from World RX race weekends

Multiple FIA World Rallycross Championship race winner Andreas Bakkerud has launched a new YouTube channel to give a behind the scenes insight into the everyday life of a top flight World RX driver. Read the rest of this entry »

Andreas Bakkerud travelled from making his rally debut in Norway to drive a Ford Focus Supercar at the sho

Rallycross starred at the Autosport International Show in Birmingham last weekend, where announcements were made about 2017 and drivers and cars from the last five decades stole the show in the Live Action Arena.

The car is owned and run by rally driver Anders Grondal, who will also support Bakkerud with rally coaching

FIA World Rallycross Championship star Andreas Bakkerud will compete in the opening round of the Norwegian Rally Championship this weekend, driving a Ford Fiesta R2 on the snow and ice based Sidal Rally. Read the rest of this entry »

The squad didn’t have long to wait for its first trophy with the Focus

America’s Ken Block and his Hoonigan Racing Division team entered the FIA World Rallycross Championship full-time in 2016, racing a brand new Ford Focus RS RX built and developed as a partnership between Ford Performance and M-Sport. Read the rest of this entry »

Mattias Ekstrom attended his first ever FIA Awards to collect his World Rallycross Drivers’ Championship trophy

The FIA World Rallycross Championship overall trophy winners for 2016, in both the Drivers’ and Teams’ Championships, were awarded their trophies on Friday evening at the FIA Awards Ceremony in Vienna.

For the third year in a row, World RX joins the Grand Prix of Trois-Rivieres (GP3R)

The FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy will embark on the season’s second half later this week following a month-long summer break. World RX of Canada (5-7 August) forms the seventh round of the World Championship and marks the first flyaway event of 2016.